Low-temperature thermodynamics for a flat-band ferromagnet: Rigorous versus numerical results
arXiv:cond-mat/0703295 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.76.220402
Abstract
The repulsive Hubbard model on a sawtooth chain exhibits a lowest single-electron band which is completely dispersionless (flat) for a specific choice of the hopping parameters. We construct exact many-electron ground states for electron fillings up to 1/4. We map the low-energy degrees of freedom of the electron model to a model of classical hard dimers on a chain and, as a result, obtain the ground-state degeneracy as well as closed-form expressions for the low-temperature thermodynamic quantities around a particular value of the chemical potential. We compare our analytical findings with complementary numerical data. Although we consider a specific model, we believe that some of our results like a low-temperature peak in the specific heat are generic for flat-band ferromagnets.
5 pages, 1 figure; accepted for publication as a Rapid Communication in Physical Review B
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